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Colorado College. — A Bhorl course in horticulture was provided for by th< 

 board of agriculture at its last meeting, to !"• held al Delta some time during the 

 coming winter. This was done with the understanding that then- would be at • 

 fifty students regularly enrolled. < me hundred have already Bigned the enrollment. 



Delaware Station. — At a recenl meeting of the board of trustees \. T. Neale was 

 relieved of duty as director of the station, and was appointed in charge of the 

 departments of agronomy and animal husbandry. This change went into effect 

 July 1. A successor to Dr, Neale as director has nol yet been elected. 



Georgia Station.- I lnder the provisions of the Adam- Act, the station propot 

 inaugurate two new departments, i. e., departments of plant breeding and pathology 

 (R. J. H. De Loach, of Athens, Ga., in charge), and of bacteriology. .'. !■'. Mom 

 of Guelph, Ontario, and I'. \. Flint, of Cement City, Midi., have been made assist- 

 ants in tin- departments of horticulture ami animal industry, respectively. 



Idaho University and Station. — Work is in progress on the uew agricultural build- 

 i t 1 lt . which is to lie a brick structure 65 by L2J ft. in size and 3 stories high. The 

 building will afford accommodations for the agricultural work of the university as 

 well as the experiment station. 



The people of Caldwell have donated 320 acres of land for an "auxiliary Btation," 

 where experiments may Ik- carried on under irrigation ami dry-land farming. 



Illinois University and Station. — The agricultural building at the university i- under- 

 going an overhauling to secure space made necessary by the unexpected increase in 

 students and by the demands of the station. The dairy department is now occu- 

 pying the rooms made vacant by the removal of the household science department 

 to the woman's building; the stock-judging room is being floored to provide an addi- 

 tional class room, and laboratories throughout the building are to be doubled in - 



A farm mechanics building, 100 ft. square and l' Btories high, i- being erected. 

 This will enable the entire southeast wing, which ha- been used for the farm 

 mechanics work, to he fitted up for -oil physics and crop work. When the agri- 

 cultural building was erected there were hut 19 students in agriculture and 7 

 instructors and investigators. Now the students have increased to 430, and there are 

 44 employees in the college and station — all within the -pace of *> years. 



Louisiana University and Stations.— E. Rosenthal, from the agricultural college, 

 Madison, Wis., has been elected dairyman of the -tat ion at Calhoun. J. G. Lee, jr., 

 of the class <»f 1906 of the university, ha- been placed in charge of feeding experi- 

 ments at the station at Calhoun. II. R. Fulton has been elected to the position of 

 plant pathologist at the station at Baton Rouge. Mr. Pulton is a graduate of the 

 University of Mississippi, took his master's degree at Columbia, Mo., ami has been 

 taking work at Harvard the pasl year. II.. I. Milk, of Watertown, N. J., has been 

 elected bacteriologist of the Btations, and will devote his time to the investigation of 

 animal diseases. 



The legislature passed a hill giving 150,000 for a new chemical laboratory for the 

 university. The foundation is now being laid for a building to he devoted to experi- 

 mental engineering. 



Missouri Station. — Leonard rlaseman, recently connected with the Florida Univer- 

 sity and station, ha- been appointed assistant in entomology. C. R. Crosby, 

 assistant in entomology, has gone to the New York Cornell Station. 



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